Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLESBest to live lightly, unthinkingly.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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The good befriend themselves.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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